It’s Official: Digital Experiences Drive Customers

Digital brand experiences do create new customers, according to the just-released FEED: The Razorfish Digital Brand Experience Report (http://feed.razorfish.com). Fully 64% of consumers surveyed made their first purchase from a brand because of a digital experience – either with a website, microsite, mobile coupon or email.

Razorfish (http://www.razorfish.com) surveyed 1,000 “connected consumers” about how Internet technologies and services affect the way they engage with brands and make purchasing decisions. This group, which is defined as having access to broadband and spending a specified amount of time and money online, used to be the digitally-savvy minority, but in the past year has become the new mainstream. Today, roughly 200 million U.S. consumers fall into this category.

“The ‘connected consumer’ is hungry for engaging online brand experiences,” said Garrick Schmitt, Razorfish Group Vice President of Experience Planning and FEED editor. “Conventional wisdom says consumers don’t want brands encroaching on their social space, but according to our findings, this simply isn’t true. Consumers are actively engaging with brands online, whether that’s ‘friending’ them on Facebook or writing a review on Yelp, and these experiences are shaping their perceptions – and loyalty – to those brands.”

He added, “In today’s digital world, the experience is the message. And these experiences are driving the bottom line.

• The digital language of love – deals, deals, deals (http://feed.razorfish.com/feed09/brand-culture/). Consumers are largely engaging with brands to receive exclusive promotions or discounts. Of those who follow a brand on Twitter, 44% say that access to good deals is the main reason.

• Digital can make or break a brand (http://feed.razorfish.com/feed09/the-bottom-line/). 65% of consumers say a digital experience, either positive or negative, changed their opinion of a brand. And in that group, almost all (97%) indicated their experience influenced whether or not they eventually purchased that brand.

• Actions speak louder than advertising (http://feed.razorfish.com/feed09/brand-culture/2/). People who actively engage with a brand digitally–from participating in a contest to downloading a mobile application–are substantially more inclined to purchase and recommend that brand to others.

“Every interaction has the power to shift a consumer’s affinity for a brand,” sad Schmitt. “For brands to be successful in retaining and creating customers, they need to shift their focus away from awareness and impressions and focus on creating experiences that move consumers to engage, purchase and spread the word.”

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